What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial, what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.
~ Stéphane Audeguy
One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.
There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.
Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.